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Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws
A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar. Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an "i-Patriot Act," to drop in the event of a "cyber-9/11." Clarke responded, "Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won't like it." Lessig's anecdote begins at about 4:30 in the video.
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All sufficiently long forum threads about a policy where the US government might become involved shall include at least one reference to 9/11 and/or Al Qaida.
Yeah! Let's make our own Internet. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the Internet.
And the blackjack.
Ahh, screw the whole thing.
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It would have been more witty to say "and instead of massive loss of life there'd be a massive loss of file"
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Re:Just wait ... (Score:1, Insightful)
by mvh (9295) on Tuesday August 05, @07:07PM (#24488549) Homepage
Which will hopefully, in turn, force us to create a better network. And perhaps we can start again and this time try to avoid Eternal September. ... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Just wait
by chris_mahan (256577) on Tuesday August 05, @07:09PM (#24488593) Homepage
me too!
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